Nutrition AND Ayurveda

Food powers your life. It fuels all bodily processes that enable you to move, think and breathe. There is no aspect of your life that is not influenced by what you eat. The food we eat gives our bodies the fuel, information and materials they need to function properly. If we don't get the right information, our metabolic processes suffer and our health declines. Poor nutrition can contribute to stress, tiredness and our capacity to work, and over time, it can contribute to the risk of developing health problems.

We compiled this list of educational suggestions to help you move through the process of wellness.

Hormones and Balance - If you came to this website, you are probably seeking help with food and sound lifestyle changes to help you reclaim your hormonal balance. I’m glad you did. My practice is driven by my passion to give you hope, knowledge, and direction to self-heal so you get your energy, weight, hair, joy and optimism where you always wanted them to be.

Dr. Josh Axe- Dr. Josh Axe, DNM, DC, CNS, is a certified doctor of natural medicine, doctor of chiropractic and clinical nutritionist with a passion to help people get healthy by using food as medicine. In 2008, he started a functional medicine center in Nashville, which grew to become one of the most renowned clinics in the world. Dr. Axe founded one of the most visited natural health website in the world at DrAxe.com, which has over 15 million monthly visitors, where the main topics include nutrition, natural medicine, fitness, healthy recipes, home remedies and trending health news.

What is Ayurveda - Thousands of years before modern medicine provided scientific evidence for the mind-body connection, the sages of India developed Ayurveda, which continues to be one of the world’s most sophisticated and powerful mind-body health systems. More than a mere system of treating illness, Ayurveda is a science of life (Ayur = life, Veda = science or knowledge). It offers a body of wisdom designed to help people stay vibrant and healthy while realizing their full human potential.

The two main guiding principles of Ayurveda are 1) the mind and the body are inextricably connected, and 2) nothing has more power to heal and transform the body than the mind. Freedom from illness depends upon expanding our own awareness, bringing it into balance, and then extending that balance to the body. This process isn’t as complicated as it may sound. For example, when you meditate you effortlessly enter a state of expanded awareness and inner quiet that refreshes the mind and restores balance. Since the mind and body are inseparable, the body is naturally balanced through the practice of meditation. In the state of restful awareness created through meditation, your heart rate and breath slow, your body decreases the production of “stress” hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline, and you increase the production of neurotransmitters that enhance wellbeing, including serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins.

Susan’s Kitchen and Breath Ayurveda- Often we are out of balance, not moving in concert with our surroundings. Ayurveda gently brings us back into harmony by establishing balance in our mind/body constitution. Through food, exercise, meditation, and detoxifying practices, we come back to ourselves and establish perfect health.

Root Vitality- Most broadly, the term Root Vitality communicates the necessity that health come from the deepest source. It tells us that we can not heal ourselves if we do not address the ROOT CAUSE of dis-ease. Restoring balance to the root of our wounds is the key to restoring vitality. Root Vitality also expresses the personal connection that a woman has with the root of her body - her pelvic bowl. Root vitality refers to the vibrancy that exists in the pelvis in form of creativity, intuition and receptivity.

Dr. Izabella Wentz, https://thyroidpharmacist.com/about/ - “I didn’t want to give up. I thought that all my symptoms were somehow connected… There has got to be some lifestyle factors that contributed to this condition! There’s got to be ways I can make myself feel better! There has got to be ways I can help stop the progression… What can I do as a person with this condition to give myself the best possible life?”

Wholesome 365, LLC is a nutrition counseling practice located in York and Hanover, PA. Founder, Malorie Blake is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who specializes in functional nutrition, which addresses the underlying causes of disease and looks at the way food affects your body at a cellular level. If you looking for more than conventional nutrition and diet advice, meeting with a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who practices integrative and functional medicine, or an integrative RDN, may be right for you. Integrative RDNs use functional medicine, an approach that doesn’t just look to manage or prevent a disease, but takes a deeper look at the root causes, environmental impact, genetic predisposition, physiological, psychological and interdependent factors that contribute to disease.

Transforming Lives | Amanda Goodwin Holistic Health Coach - As a Virtual Holistic Health Coach I work with those who have autoimmune conditions. My specialty is Hashimoto's and Crohn’s Diseases, as I was able to overcome them personally. My passion is helping others with chronic illnesses. I love to watch my clients transform and get back to living their life! I help to give clients their life back, by decreasing their pain, creating better sleep and therefore build more energy, through diet and lifestyle changes. By working together, we can help you to once again thrive, not just survive.

Your Fork the Most Powerful Tool to Transform your Health – Dr. Dr. Hyman believes that we all deserve a life of vitality—and that we have the potential to create it for ourselves. That’s why he is dedicated to tackling the root causes of chronic disease by harnessing the power of Functional Medicine to transform healthcare.

Mark Hyman, MD favorite podcasts: “I hope you can kick back and find some inspiration from these podcasts during your well-deserved downtime!”

Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey: What are the simplest things you can do to be better at everything? Dave’s focus is to improve your biochemistry, your body, and your mind so they work in unison, helping you execute at levels far beyond what you’d expect.I've Got Your Back with Dhru Purohit: My business partner and CEO Dhru Purohit has an incredible podcast on the topic of friendship and community. I've always shared that friend-power is more important than willpower when it comes to health. In this podcast Dhru talks about creating friendships that matter and building relationships that have your back. I love his practical tips on building community and dealing with toxic relationships.The Living Experiment: Hosts Dallas Hartwig of the Whole30 program and Pilar Gerasimo of The Healthy Deviant share smart, rollicking conversation about living conscious, happy, healthy lives. I always enjoy chatting with these two about how to use self-experimentation to find practical shifts for a customized approach to wellbeing.The School of Greatness Podcast: Find out what makes great people great, with host Lewis Howes, NY Timesbestselling author, lifestyle entrepreneur, and former pro athlete. Lewis shares inspiring stories from brilliant minds and world-class athletes.Revolution Health Radio with Chris Kresser: Chris is all about debunking mainstream myths on nutrition and health through cutting-edge, practical information to prevent and reverse disease naturally.The Healthy Moms Podcast from Wellness Mama: Take actionable steps towards better health for your family as you learn about real food, stress, sleep, toxins, fitness, and overall natural living. Katie is a mom on a mission, you’ll love her upbeat interviews with fascinating guests on all things wellness.Feel Better Live More: Dr. Rangan Chatterjee of BBC One’s Doctor in the House interviews professionals both in and out of the health world, to provide you with simple, empowering tips that you can embrace for your own wellbeing.The Balanced Blonde Podcast // Soul On Fire: Ignite your passion with Jordan Younger, by exploring everything from nutrition to friendship to business and so much more. She shares inspiring interviews with wellness experts in a conversational way, making it fun to follow along and soak up the keys to pursuing a life well loved.

The Institute for the Psychology of Eating - The Institute for the Psychology of Eating is at the forefront of a powerful, new, holistic nutritional healing movement that’s changing the way we understand food, weight, body image, holistic nutrition, and health. Our students come from all walks of life and many countries with this one common goal – to learn a better way to heal our relationship with food, body, planet, and soul.

180DegreeHealth – Matt Stone – Matt Stone, a health researcher extraordinaire with a goofy streak and a huge following, maintains 180DegreeHealth. There’s quite a variety of videos, tips, e-books and other helpful advice that will make think twice about your relationship with food. He specializes in Metabolism.

Chris Kresser – Chris Kresser is an acupuncturist and integrative medicine practitioner who recognizes that every one of his patients have a biological uniqueness. His blog posts, which cover topics such as what to eat before you ever consider having a baby and how to eat a Paleo diet that is right for your body, are well thought out and convincing.

Dr. David Katz – David Katz, MD, is the founding (1998) director of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center Dr. Katz has been extensively involved in medical education. He was a founding director of one of the nation’s first combined residency training programs in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine

Food Renegade – Kristine Michaelis is a wife, homeschooling mother, and a nutrition-wellness coach. FR is where she chronicles her passion to educate the masses about “real food”. Greatly influenced by the research of Sally Fallon, Weston A. Price, Michael Pollan, and agrarian poet Wendell Berry – Food Renegade is a worthy discovery for real food foodies. Also make sure to check out her weekly blog carnival – Fight Back Fridays!

Mindful Nutrition Seattle – Minh-Hai Alex is a registered dietitian and certified health and wellness coach with a passion for turning people on to eating in a way that feels good physically, mentally and emotionally. There is no dieting, guilt, or deprivation involved in Minh-Hai’s work, instead she encourages her clients to find and honor their intuitions.

Boulder Nutrition – Holistic Nutritionist Sue Van Raes brings a science background and a passion for food and pleasure to the Boulder Nutrition Health Revolution! She offers a clinically based nutrition practice combined with a powerful food psychology component to support visitors and clients in finding the optimal diet for them as individuals to promote metabolic healing, while also providing the opportunity to investigate and heal relationships to food and the body.

Paleo Mom – Sarah Ballantyne writes about the science behind the Paleo diet, as well as how to practically implement a Paleo lifestyle when raising a family. A number of Sarah’s posts also highlight how modifications made to a Paleo diet and life can be transformational for individuals living with autoimmune conditions.

Paleo for Women – Paleo for Women is written by Stefani Ruper who advocates for evolutionary perspective for health. Stefani writes about the links between female health and diet and encourages women to eat a diet that works with her body instead of against it.

First Step Nutrition – Jennifer House a Registered Dietician and mom of two who founded First Step Nutrition, a nutrition practice for pregnant and postpartum women, babies, and young children. Her work and website are an excellent resource if you are wondering what to eat during pregnancy or how to get your toddler to eat more green vegetables.

Michael Murray, MD – For the past 30 years, Dr. Murray has been compiling a massive database of original scientific studies from the medical literature. He has personally collected over 60,000 articles from the scientific literature, which provide strong evidence on the effectiveness of diet, vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other natural measures in the maintenance of health and the treatment of disease.

Motive Nutrition – Motive Nutrition is a Montreal-based wellness company, specializing in nutrition coaching, online wellness programs and healthy workshops and events. The Motive Nutrition blog provides recipes, cooking how-tos, nutrition knowledge, actionable wellness strategies and motivation to help you get back to basics in the kitchen, eat real good food and take charge of your health.

Journey to Wellness - Clean eating is so much more than a diet, it’s a lifestyle. Cleaning up your diet will absolutely help you to lose weight but eating clean has many more benefits than that! This lifestyle is about returning to a more natural way of eating that includes eating more nutrient rich plant foods, healthy fats and recipes made with real ingredients. Wouldn’t it be nice to not have to weigh your food or worry about counting calories? Clean eating only requires that you eat an abundance of healthy whole foods that will energize you and nourish your body. When we begin to switch our lifestyle to clean eating our bodies will change in some remarkable ways, from lowering inflammation, to weight loss, lowered blood pressure and much more. Below are a few of the health benefits of a clean eating lifestyle!